Apple's new Audio Intelligence turns the Watch into a listening device, privacy is part of the pitch
Apple's new smartwatches can listen to your conversations and summarize them later
Tesla's Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals, but a hidden touchscreen joystick may let humans drive it
Tesla's own chair has said the car could get real controls "if we have to" – this joystick may be the compromise
Apple launches iPhone Duo, its first foldable to rival the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold
Touch ID returns on a flagship iPhone after nearly a decade
First look: Following years of fervent speculation, Apple finally unveiled its first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event in Cupertino, California. The company is betting big on its first foldable, with new CEO John Ternus calling it "the most transformational change to iPhone since the original."
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 85% off the regular price.
The US government is betting $300 million that quantum computing's real problem is manufacturing, not software
D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum get $100 million each in CHIPS Act funding
Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max launch with a familiar design, new A20 Pro SoC, and aperture-controlled camera
The standard iPhone 18 won't arrive until next year
Corsair made a $200 gaming chair and then tested it like it was going into battle
It's Corsair's new entry-level chair
OpenAI claims 10,000 of its AI agents solved one of mathematics' hardest problems in 88 hours
The Navier-Stokes claim tests whether AI can do real mathematics, not just convincing mathematics
Nvidia GeForce 616.92 driver is ready for 007 First Light's Path Tracing update
Nvidia's GeForce 616.92 WHQL driver adds Game Ready support for the Path Tracing update in 007 First Light, PUBG's upcoming DLSS update, and new DLSS games Active Matter, Aniimo, and Wardogs. The release also fixes intermittent browser flickering, virtual display issues, and black screens affecting Remote Desktop sessions.
Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams
The openDesk suite will replace Microsoft 365 on 3,000 PCs, with 54,000 more possibly next
Editor's take: Switzerland is joining a growing list of European countries that no longer want to do business with Microsoft and other US IT giants. The federal government has already begun ditching Microsoft's productivity tools in favor of open-source alternatives, and the country's military authorities are moving even faster with the transition.
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Testing DLSS 5's Real Performance (No 6X Frame Gen)
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I Vibecoded to Run Morrowind, Duke Nukem, and Serious Sam in My iPhone
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Graphics Card Prices Are Rising Fast (Again), and GeForce Is Taking the Biggest Hit
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Best Of
The Best GPUs - Early to Mid 2026
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The Best Windows Uninstaller Tools for Wiping Out Stubborn Software
This app applies Nvidia DLSS 5 to the entire Windows desktop
NeuralScreen can overlay "neural rendering" on movies and game footage alike, since it can't tell the difference
Google mapped a fly's nervous system and developers are using it to play Doom
The MaleCNS v1.0 dataset maps more than 166,000 neurons from an adult fruit fly's brain
LG accused of tracking its smart TV users, scanning home networks, and recording conversations
LG strongly denies claims that its smart TVs record ambient audio or secretly harvest user data
WTF?! An investigation by YouTube channel Gamers Nexus has found that LG's smart OLED TVs track users' viewing patterns across streaming platforms, cable, and local media. The televisions also reportedly scan users' home Wi-Fi network, collect information about connected devices without permission, and transmit the data to LG Ad Solutions to push targeted advertising.
Anthropic researcher resigns, warns the AI race could end in human extinction
A colleague puts the chance of AI killing all humans within a decade at more than 10%
Crystal ball: What's more concerning than the prospect of AI bringing about the end of humanity? It's the people working at these companies making the same warning. Hours after a former OpenAI employee quit Anthropic and said, "No other human activity poses this level of danger," a colleague said there is more than a 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill all humans within the next decade.
Jensen Huang declares AGI has arrived, again, and again he's selling GPUs
Nvidia says GPT-6 Astra was trained on 100,000 Blackwell GPUs, with 400,000 more coming online
Windows users are getting Harry Potter ads as their Bing Wallpaper, and they aren't happy
Microsoft fails to find the magic
ASML targets 2033 for High-NA EUV with larger masks, promising a 40% productivity gain
Intel already uses High-NA EUV for laptop chips, but TSMC and Samsung aren't deploying it at scale yet
The iPhone Duo headlines Apple's launch event today, watch it here
The iPhone 18 series could play second fiddle to the iPhone Duo at Apple's Surprise and Shine event
Dell Alienware AW3926QW Review: The 39-Inch OLED to Buy
The Alienware AW3926QW pairs a 39-inch 5K2K OLED with RGB stripe clarity, strong HDR, and a price that makes LG's rival look far less appealing.
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AMD GPUs are climbing the sales charts as Radeon beats Nvidia on Amazon and in Germany
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TECH CULTURE
CD and vinyl sales are surging as frustration with digital grows
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"SCIENCE"
An AI-developed drug appeared to make patients biologically younger in a clinical trial
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SKYNET
These AI agents hijacked a wiki to discuss how to escape their sandbox
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SOFTWARE
Microsoft unveils distraction-free Windows for developers, but anyone can replicate it
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WTF
Man uses robot vacuum to catch cheating wife, wins case, then gets jailed for secretly filming her
Modders have already found two ways to make DLSS 5 playable, and neither one is Nvidia's
With caveats, of course, modders get creative by reordering the rendering pipeline, or putting a second GPU on it
The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake arrives on Switch 2 November 5
Pricing starts at $59.99
Lucky enthusiast found $12,000 worth of RAM sitting in his garage
Salvaged from an old, decommissioned server
HWiNFO lets you see exactly what your PC hardware is doing
HWiNFO combines detailed system information with extensive sensor monitoring, making it useful for checking temperatures, power usage, clock speeds, and other hardware behavior in real time. It can also help troubleshoot performance issues.
PC shipments are falling, but manufacturers are making more money selling pricier AI PCs
Bottom line: PC makers are selling more expensive machines into a market with fewer available units, as tight memory supplies reshape product mix, pricing, and demand for AI-capable systems. That shift is helping manufacturers preserve – and in some cases expand – revenue even as global shipments decline, but it is also pushing the industry further away from the low-cost devices that once drove volume growth.
Intel's CPUs could get 10% more expensive next month
Intel could cut another 5% to 10% of staff as CEO Lip-Bu Tan continues restructuring push
Apple is reportedly exploring a Chinese memory supplier, and it's politically loaded
CXMT is targeting 300,000 DRAM wafers per month by year's end as it courts global customers
California city canceled Flock, removed its cameras, then found the company had put some of them back
Facepalm: Once again, Flock is making headlines it would rather avoid: the company has admitted that it reinstalled its cameras in a California city after the police force canceled its contract and took them down. Flock, for its part, is pointing to an automated system that thought the cameras going offline meant there was a fault, though it also seems to be blaming the city for removing its cameras too quickly.
Xiaomi 18 Fold takes on the foldable iPhone with a 200MP camera and 6,000mAh battery
The phone debuts Xiaomi's own Xring O3 chip, built on a 3nm process
Old School RuneScape developer sentenced for stealing and selling in-game virtual gold
Hacking a free MMORPG does not grant virtual immunity against real justice
An AI-developed drug appeared to make patients biologically younger in a clinical trial
Some patients saw biological-age estimates fall by several years after just four weeks
Jeep, Ram, Hyundai, and Ford are turning to gas backup engines to save the electric truck
The extended-range approach also extends to three-row SUVs, addressing towing and charging concerns
AMD GPUs are climbing the sales charts as Radeon beats Nvidia on Amazon and in Germany
The Radeon RX 9070 XT is Amazon's best-selling graphics card
In a nutshell: Despite Nvidia losing fans over the last few years as its focus on gamers diminishes (or disappears), the company's GPUs have dominated the sales charts. But that status quo is starting to change: Amazon's top 10 best-selling GPU list is an even split between Team Red and Team Green, with the highest position held by a Radeon 9000-series card. Meanwhile, in Germany, AMD is the one that's dominating sales – at least at one retailer.
You can now play PS3 games straight from the disc, without owning a PS3
RPCS3 emulator adds direct Blu-ray disc support for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS (and Windows, of course)
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